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Bird's Custard is the brand name for the original powdered, egg-free imitation custard powder, now owned by Premier Foods. Custard powder and instant custard powder are the generic product names for similar and competing products.
Alfred Bird's gravestone at Key Hill Cemetery, Birmingham. Alfred Bird died on 15 December 1878 in Kings Norton, Birmingham and is buried at Key Hill Cemetery in Birmingham. . Famously his obituary in the journal of the Chemical Society (of which he was a fellow) discussed at length his skills and research but did not mention his other activity – the by then famous Bird's Custard and Bird's Jel
Sir Alfred Frederick Bird, 1st Baronet (27 July 1849 – 7 February 1922) [1] was an English chemist, food manufacturer and Conservative Party politician. He is best remembered as the proprietor of Alfred Bird & Sons , a company founded by his father Alfred Bird , the inventor of baking powder and the powdered custard that bears his name.
The term "mete" referred to the pie, not the meat: a 15th-century cookbook gives a bake mete recipe for a pear custard pie. [6] Describing the franklin in the 14th-century classic The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer said: "Withoute bake mete was nevere his hous, Of fissh and flessh, and that so plentvous". [7]
Angel Delight was released in 1967 by the Bird's company, [3] in a strawberries-and-cream flavour. By the 1970s, Bird's had doubled the market for instant desserts . [ 2 ] After a lull in popularity during the 1980s, a revival campaign, featuring Wallace & Gromit , was run in 1999. [ 2 ]
The Bird-in-Hand’s shoofly pie comes from an old family recipe featuring its famous wet-bottom and a filling of syrup, eggs, flour, brown sugar, and cinnamon. In Philadelphia, Italian ice is ...
Custard is a variety of culinary preparations based on sweetened milk, cheese, or cream cooked with egg or egg yolk to thicken it, and sometimes also flour, corn starch, or gelatin. Depending on the recipe, custard may vary in consistency from a thin pouring sauce (crème anglaise) to the thick pastry cream (crème pâtissière) used to fill ...
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